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Published by London//Sydney, Chatto & Windus/Random House 1996., 1996
First Edition
First edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise very fine in very fine dustjacket (Australian $ price on flap). Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $5, so please disregard any site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards before the order is processed by the bookseller.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House London, 2005
ISBN 10: 0701178949ISBN 13: 9780701178949
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 2005 hardcover release) first printing of a near fine softcover with one spine crease, with no jacket as issued. The 2nd novel in the Simon Serrailler mystery series, a Chief Inspector with the Lafferton England U.K. police force.
Published by London. Chatto & Windus/Penguin Random House, 2022
ISBN 10: 1784744514ISBN 13: 9781784744519
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Chatto & Windus/Penguin Random House. 2022. First Edition. Fifth Impression. Hard Cover. Crown Octavo 7½" by 5" (190 mm x 126 mm) approx. 449 pp. Red boards; extremely gentle softening at the spine ends and small dint at edge of upper board Silver titles to the spine. Unclipped pictorial dust wrapper with photograph of the author to the front wrap. The dust wrapper will be protected with a new polyester inert sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK are for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail Tracked. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.35). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.
Published by Chatto & Windus - Part of the Penguin Random House Group, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784740519ISBN 13: 9781784740511
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Kennedy, Martha - Jacket Design (illustrator). First Printing. 274 Pages. Interior text pages are white and tight. Amos Oz's first major novel in a decade - since A Tale of Love and Darkness, which sold over 100,000 copies Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Times Literary Supplement. This is a story from the winter days of the end of 1959 and the beginning of 1960. It is a story of error and desire, of unrequited love, and of a religious question that remains unresolved. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too. A woman, who is trailed by ghosts from her past. Shmuel is captivated by her, a sexual obsession which evolves into gentle love and devotion; and he is pulled to the old man, an intellectual obsession which also evolves into gentle love and devotion. Shmuel begins to uncover the house's tangled history and, in doing so, reaches an understanding that harks back not only to the beginning of the Jewish-Arab conflict, but also the beginning of Jerusalem itself - to Christianity, to Judaism, to Judas. Set in the still-divided Jerusalem of 1959-60, Judas is an exquisite love story and coming-of-age tale, and a radical rethinking of the concept of treason. It is a novel steeped in desire and curiosity from one of Israel's greatest living writers.
Published by London. Chatto & Windus/Vintage/Random House, 2019
ISBN 10: 178474316XISBN 13: 9781784743161
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Chatto & Windus/Vintage. 2019. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Crown 8vo 7½" x 5" [19cm x 12.7cm] approx. 115 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Pristine text block. Condition. Fine. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket with wraparound flower artwork by The London Library. Practically fine; tiny negligible crease at the head of the spine. When the author was 6 years old, her mother committed suicide. Now, many years later, Marie-Elsa returns to that night, inhabiting this defining tragedy, allowing for an exploration of the grief and also bringing healing. In a unique and remarkable mix of prose and poetry, and written partly as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father, Sleeping Letters is a way of connecting to past family with a radical exploration of her own faith. The jacket will be covered with an inert archival protective sleeve which is removable.
Published by Chatto & Windus (Random House), London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0701173823ISBN 13: 9780701173821
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild skew starting to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a small ding to the head of the front cover, and a brief notation in blue ink to the upper corner of the first free end page, otherwise a solid, tight, bright Very Good copy in an unclipped Very Good+ dust jacket, which has very minor bumps to the spine ends and corners, and a hint of faint rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a Mylar cover.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House Group Ltd. London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0701184132ISBN 13: 9780701184131
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket with the publishers "'Glorious' John Harvey 12.99 pounds" sticker present. The 2nd novel in the Bella Wallis mystery series, a novelist published under male pseudonym Henry Ellis Margam, in 1870s London England U.K.
Published by Chatto & Windus [an imprint of Vintage / Penguin Random House], London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1784742678ISBN 13: 9781784742676
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with the complete number string on the printer's page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. A paperback original (PBO) pamphlet. ***A very good copy in dark-blue stapled card covers with French-flaps, with gilt titles and decoration on the front and back covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, but with some rubbing at the edges and a little creasing at the spine. No tears. No bumps. Corners sharp. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. No marks, creases or tears. Paper stock clean - just slightly tanned. ***26 pages. 170 mm x 123 mm. ***'In this bold and resonant gathering of poems, Liz Berry turns her distinctive voice to the transformative experience of new motherhood. Her poems sing the body electric, from the joy and anguish of becoming a mother, through its darkest hours to its brightest days. With honesty and unabashed beauty, they bear witness to that most tender of times - when a new life arrives, and everything changes.' [Quote taken from the front flap. ***'Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, "Black Country", was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including The Guardian.' [Wiki] ***'I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.' ***A true first edition, first impression of this small pamphlet. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 0701181656ISBN 13: 9780701181659
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket by Jarrod Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Sadly jacket quite marked with tea cup rings and splashes to front jacket and spine, some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, small closed tear to top of spine. Not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a good reading copy only, although book itself looks almost unread. 983pp. This Faustian story with a terrifying twist is the fictional memoir of Dr. Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, who has reinvented himself as a family man and owner of a lace factory in post war France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat, who speaks out now not in self justification but to set the record straight. He looks back at his life with cool eyed precision: from a disrupted childhood and a turning point in his student days, to his role as observer and then participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front, from Poland to the Caucasus, he is present at the siege of Stalingrad, at the death camps, and finally caught up in the rout of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin. Although Max is a totally imagined character, his world is peopled by real historical figures such as Eichmann, Himmler, Goring, Speer, Heydrich, Hoss, and Hitler himself. Massive in scope, terrifying in subject matter, and shocking in its protagonist, Littell's masterpiece is intense, hallucinatory, and terrifyingly compelling. Described by Le Figaro as 'a monument of contemporary literature', this transgressive work has been compared to classics of world literature, including War and Peace. A huge novel about the seductive enormity of evil, the ineffable horror of war, man's inhumanity and the malevolence of the Furies, this is a book that every thinking person should read and to which no one can be indifferent. A huge heavy book, extra postage may be required.
Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182954ISBN 13: 9780701182953
Seller: Books@Ruawai, Kaipara District, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good - Age Marks, Browned. First Edition.
Published by Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London . London 2002., 2002
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Signed
Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 63 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'For Geraldine with best wishes at Penshurst Ruth Padel September 2007'. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780701173012 POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 0701186488ISBN 13: 9780701186487
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£12.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 178pp. This devastating dossier of savage stories takes us to the crimes that never reach the newspapers: small-town atrocities where the mundane lurches into the macabre and ordinary people find themselves at the heart of horrific crimes, all the more compelling on account of their truth. Opening with an attack on a waitress by a band of musicians in a beer tent, we are led through the rituals of the Illuminati by a violent schoolboy sect, and invited to look into a briefcase full of photographs of mutilated corpses. There is the saga of a bungled drug heist involving a stolen car and a dog full of laxatives; the jealous husband who almost bludgeons his wife's lover to death; and the final chilling story of an eccentric madman who cleverly turns the tables on his own defense lawyer.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1997
ISBN 10: 0701163941ISBN 13: 9780701163945
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Graham Evenden (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, corners very slightly bruised, price clipped, small previous owner's sticker to bottom front pastedown, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 284pp, illustrated. In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world and is a byword for biscuits to this day. Following his trail to Carlisle (where she herself was born and grew up), Margaret Forster (1938-2016), brings 19th century daily life into vivid focus and charts the rise and rise of a middle class family like the Carrs, ambitious, innovative yet sternly religious. This is history as it was lived by the men and women both above and below stairs, from the shop floor to the comfortable bourgeois homes of the paternalistic Carrs. We see the conflict between religion and profit, the family feuds and the changing face of a city through this compelling historical narrative, told with Margaret Forster's characteristic blend of scholarship, readability and marvellous attention to the texture of everyday life.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 1784740667ISBN 13: 9781784740665
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Annie Griffiths Belt (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '5 7 9 10 8 6 4'. Some minuscule edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 250pp. Tara Fraser leaves London to start a new life in a Cumbrian town selected at random. She plans to obliterate her past, which contains a shocking event that had serious consequences, by becoming a completely different personality from her previous volatile self. She is going to be quiet, even dull, and very private. But one of her new neighbours, Nancy, is intrigued by her. She wants to become her friend. Equally determined not to be discarded are three old friends who Tara feels let her down when she most needed them. Tara fights to keep herself to herself, but can she do it? And does she really want to? Slowly, reluctantly, she discovers the dangers of trying to suppress the past and reject other people.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 1856197883ISBN 13: 9781856197885
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket after The Royal Photographic Society (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear, short closed tears and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (£25.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 732pp, illustrated. A history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. The book traces the three causes of the halving of the Irish population in that century, the famine, the subsequent Irish emigrations to American and Canada, and the transportation of political activitists to Australia. A quest for Australian Irish author's Thomas Keneally (author of Schindler's Ark) ancestors.
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Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0701173742ISBN 13: 9780701173746
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight lean. Not price clipped (£14.99), gift inscription on ffep, internally clean and tight overall a vg copy. 414pp. The story of three women, whose lives criss-cross between Paris in the 1890s, at the height of the Dreyfus affair, France again in 1941 and Canada today. The first-person narrator, a contemporary Canadian simultaneous translator, goes to Paris to research Proust and escape an unrequited love, and finds instead Mme Proust's 'unpublished diary' in the archives. Then there is Sarah, a Jewish French girl whose parents send her out of Paris in WWII to escape the round-ups; she ends up in Canada and never sees them again. She marries into an orthodox Jewish family and becomes more kosher than they are, constantly consoling herself with cooking - and we finally discover that it's her son with whom our narrator is unrequitedly in love.and he's gay. The third woman is Mme Proust herself, whose 'diaries' are fictionalised in a wonderful pastiche by Taylor, with irresistible and impecccably researched details of the mother's worries about Marcel, his late-night habits, his diet and his friends, and about the Dreyfus affair - being Jewish though completely assimilated she observes it with very different eyes from her husband's. Everything comes together poignantly and satisfyingly: the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders both Jewish and homosexual, and finally redemption through literature and cooking.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0701160306ISBN 13: 9780701160302
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Rembrandt (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, not price clipped (£15.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy. 472pp. Lucas Graffe a reclusive academic, kills a man in self defense and disappears immediately after the trial, leaving his brother, the charismatic actor Clement Graffe, tortured by his absence. Their friend Bellamy James rids himself of all ties and possessions, even giving away his beloved dog. Yearning for simplicity and purification, he prepares himself for a monastic life. And outside Clifton, the house where the widowed Louise Anderson lives with her three eccentric daughters, a very peculiar man is watching. Lucas finally returns, and during his reunion with his brother they happen to receive a surprising visitor. It soon becomes clear to the Graffes and their friends that there is a complex mission to fulfill, of revenge, but also of transformation. Rich, enthralling, full of humor and suspense, Iris Murdoch's magnificent novel illuminates the complexities of guilt and innocence, malice and compassion.
Published by Chatto & Windus/ Random House, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0701175087ISBN 13: 9780701175085
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Martin Scott-Jupp (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, subsequent impression with number line '6 8 10 9 7'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some yellowing to page block, top corners very slightly bruised, price clipped, a signature to title page but not I think that of Hazel Rowley, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy. 429pp, illustrated. They are one of the world's legendary couples. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Startre, those passionate, free thinking Existentialist philosopher writers, had a committed but notoriously open union that generated no end of controversy. Through original interviews and access to new primary sources, Hazel Rowley portrays them up close. We witness Beauvoir and Sartre with their circle, holding court in Paris cafes. We learn the details of their infamous romantic entanglements with the young Olga Kosakiewicz and others, of their efforts to protest the wars in Algeria and Vietnam, and of Beauvoir's tempestuous love affair with Nelson Algren. We hear the anguished discussions that would lead to Sartre's refusal of the Nobel Prize, and listen in on the couple as they comment on each other's great works. The impact of their writings on modern thought can hardly be overestimated, but Beauvoir and Sartre are remembered just as much for the lives they led. Theirs is a great story, and a great story is precisely what Beauvoir and Sartre most wanted their lives to be. Hazel Joan Rowley (1951-2011), was a British born Australian author and biographer, she sadly died young from a stroke in New York.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0701134291ISBN 13: 9780701134297
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket after Channel 4 of Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Madrigal (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression with full number line. Not ex library but a somewhat worn and much read volume. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some overall wear and creasing to largely white jacket, corners bruised, grubby fingerprints to page fore edges, contents shaken, some lean, price clipped, gift inscription to ffep, internally clean, overall a good reading copy only. 755pp. Published to mark the first of the tv series, broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, starring Laura Linney as Mary Ann Singleton, Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, and Barbara Garrick as DeDe Halcyon-Day. Quite scarce in this first impression, even in this worn condition.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0701182539ISBN 13: 9780701182533
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by James Munro (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, tiny closed tear to top of spine, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 224pp, illustrated. Richard Mabey began experimenting with cooking as soon as he was big enough to clamber to the cupboard where the powdered chocolate was kept. At scout camp he learned how to cook a Sussex Pond Pudding in a billycan, and thirty years ago he permanently broadened the nation's palate with his guide to edible wild plants 'Food For Free'.This book is a joyous exploration of local ingredients, broadening your horizons by travelling, vernacular heritage, and making use of everything except, as the saying goes 'the pig's squeal'. It includes: Collecting Corsican chestnut receipes and American mushroom ideas, and meditating on what a forest food culture would have been like, Cooking eggs in nothing but the sun, Making bread the prehistoric way with old beer, Exploring the outer limits of apple cusine (i.e. the outer limit is making leather out of apples), 'Cooking against the grain', if we didn't have access to wheat, what could we make with nuts? How to deal with gluts, those autumn mountains of beans and courgettes, Making-do the wartime way, canny tricks his mother taught him, and re introducing his father's passion for offals.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 070118910XISBN 13: 9780701189105
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and endpapers by Lizzy Stewart (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£14.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 264pp. Margaret Forster (1938-2016), was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel 'Georgy Girl', made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. This memoir details Margaret Forster?s journey through the houses she?s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes, from blacking grates and outside privies to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings, to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
Published by London, Chatto & Windus [Random House Ltd]. 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0701169656ISBN 13: 9780701169657
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
Book
Original publisher's black paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: [vi], 260pp. Very fine copy - as new.,
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0701178957ISBN 13: 9780701178956
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. With scarce publishers' band. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, very slight lean, not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 431pp. Egg stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, 'Kept' is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highly strung young widow. Not far away lives Ireland's friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist who collects strange trophies, a stuffed bear, a pet mouse, and a wolf that he keeps caged in the grounds of his decaying house, lost in the fog on the edge of the fens. The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs, Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be reunited with her vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various lowlife henchmen; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of the Mr Ireland's death and many other things besides, all are drawn into a net of intrigue with wide and sinister implications. Ranging from the loch sides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, 'Kept' is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess, at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re invention of Victorian life and passions.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0701177934ISBN 13: 9780701177935
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Corbis (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '6 8 10 9 7'. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLUE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight lean, contents shaken with first few pages loose, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean, overall a reasonable copy. 368pp. In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys, he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker (and dodging the attentions of other women), and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn't belong, body or soul, to his new country but can he really go home again? Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London First Edition . 1998., 1998
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original moss green paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, charcoal end sheets. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Full printer's code to the copyright leaf 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. Contains (xiv), 274 pp with monochrome photographs throughout. Tanning to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0701187514ISBN 13: 9780701187514
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the publisher's copyright prelims-page: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1. Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of leading feminist writer Germaine Greer, and includes a loosely inserted card with a handwritten note from Becky Hardie at Random House to Germaine Greer (please see scans). ***Near fine in cream cloth-covered boards, with black titles on the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Binding straight with no reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Paper slightly tanned. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £16.99. The dustwrapper is just slightly rubbed at the edges. No tears. No chips. No fading. Dustwrapper clean and bright. ***264 pages, including a Postscript, detailed Bibliography, Acknowledgements and a detailed Index at the back of the book. 222 mm x 142 mm. ***'Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Osy? Scarlett or Melanie? "Lace" or "Valley of the Dolls"? On a pilgrimage to "Wuthering Heights", Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, free, passionate Cathy, but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob who betrays Heathcliff for Edgar and makes them all unhappy -- while courageous Jane makes her own way. And that's when Samantha realised that all her life she'd been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane. "How to be a Heroine" is a funny, touching, inspiring exploration of the role of heroines, and our favourite books, in all our lives -- and how they change over time, for better or worse, just as we do.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper]. ***A near fine copy of this interesting study of the role of heroines in literature - from the library of eminent feminist and professor Germaine Greer. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 0701185597ISBN 13: 9780701185596
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jacket by Chris Wormell (illustrator). 1st Edition. First collected edition, first impression with full number line. Some very very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unopened, unread. 981pp. Bella Wallis is a glamorous widow with a secret identity. In an office buried deep within the seedy back streets of Victorian London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam. With dodgy deals, scheming aristocrats and stolen kisses behind closed doors, prize winning author Brian Thompson conjures up an irresistible quartet filled top to toe with Dickensian glamour. We start with The Widow's Secret, an effervescent romp to Paris on the trail of the owner of a mysterious cigar case, then The Sailor's Ransom, a tale of pearls and swine, set on the Cornish coast and the high seas, and The Player's Curse, where kidnap, cricket and cross dressing coincide in a riotous mystery. We end with the previously unpublished The Whole Story, in which Bella is caught up in an anarchist bomb attack at her favourite restaurant, Fracatelli's on the Strand, and only just survives to tell the tale.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0701189053ISBN 13: 9780701189051
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '6 8 10 9 7'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bumped, very slight lean. Not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 448pp. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle¿s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan¿s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man¿s reckoning with the truth. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014.
Published by Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 0701179910ISBN 13: 9780701179915
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 289pp. Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70, and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, but her first marriage to Lord Swinfen was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler, and possibly with his brother at the same time, and in her later years enjoyed a torrid relationship with Robert Bolt. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, 'roped into intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. Her experiences in MI5 and her many wartime love affairs, which form the core of this biography, also formed the cores of her novels. She wrote about the atmosphere of the home front, and how war dislocates families, and how a sense of the imminence of death loosens the inhibitions, her novels are sexy and witty. She also drew on her love and knowledge of Cornwall.
Published by Chatto & Windus / Random House, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0701172983ISBN 13: 9780701172985
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed and bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 852pp, illustrated. THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son. She was the mother of Mary Tudor. ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French educated Protestant with whom Henry Vlll was madly in love for a brief period. She was the mother of Elizabeth I. JANE SEYMOUR the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's vampish style. She died soon after giving birth to the longed for son Edward VI. ANNE OF CLEVES 'the Flanders mare' he was horrified because she was so plain and she was appalled because he was so fat. CATHERINE HOWARD the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king. CATHERINE PARR the shrewd Protestant bluestocking who outlived him. A huge heavy book, extra postage may be required.